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Since Yosemite, the green button in the upper left corner on each window activates the fullscreen mode. By holding the alt/⌥ Option key, it works as before (Mavericks). Is there any possibility (Terminal?) to change this behaviour back to “normal”? For example: holding alt for fullscreen mode?
Update
You can change the behaviour back to “normal” with BetterTouchTool.
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asked Oct 21, 2014 at 7:41
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Hold down Option key and click the Green button. It will change from the Full Screen button back to a Zoom button.
You can also double-click the empty area in the window frame (title bar) if you don’t have it set to minimize when double-clicking.
However, this soft can help you : https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30591/right-zoom
answered Oct 21, 2014 at 9:01
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According to what I could find, you cannot change the default behaviour (much like most things in OSX) … however what I ended up doing is using a keyboard shortcut to use zoom. The following answer helped me do that: https://superuser.com/a/718843/98807
Essentially:
- System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
- Add a custom “App Shortcut”
- name “Zoom”
- whatever key combo you want e.g. Opt+Cmd+=
answered Nov 21, 2014 at 18:52
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Double-clicking the empty area in the window frame (title bar) seems like the best answer. In fact a great one, since this is a larger area than the green button..
Worth noting that Firefox wants to hide the title bar – this threw me for a while. Go to ‘toolbars>customize’ and click on ‘title bar’ to get it back.
answered Feb 20, 2015 at 2:37
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I use alt + shift + the green button. This reflects the Windows maximize button behaviour.
answered Jan 7, 2015 at 15:41
According to this page you can achieve this using BetterTouchTool
- Download BetterTouchTool here
- Open BetterTouchTool and grant access to “Accessibility” when requested (this will open System Preferences > Security > Privacy > Accessibility)
- Allow BetterTouchTool access in OS X Preferences
- Back in BetterTouchTool, click on the “Other” tab in the upper right of the app
- Select “Global” from the left side options
- Near the bottom, click on “Configure New Trigger”
- In the “Trigger” pulldown menu, choose “Leftclick Green Window Button”
- In the “Predefined Action” menu, choose “Zoom Window Below Cursor”
- Flip back to the OS X Finder (or another open app) and click the green button, it should now simply maximize the window rather than send it into Full Screen Mode (even if the icon changes to fullscreen when the mouse hovers).
- Close BetterTouchTool preferences pane (Red Window Button)
The changes will stay in effect as long as you have BetterTouchTool runs in background (its icon should appear in the menu bar, and that it is configured this way.
answered Jan 26, 2016 at 15:48
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